'SANDITON' EPIC TV DRAMA
WELCOME TO REGENCY ERA!
Poldark is finally ending forever, spylings, tonight and tomorrow night (which is probably for the best given how embarrassingly atrocious the final season has been), so what are we going to watch now when it comes to period
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| We are all heading to the summer resort of Sanditon tonight! |
set dramas? Well,
SANDITON of course, which starts tonight at ITV clashing in the prime time spot with Captain Ross and his constantly nagging wife.
SANDITON is, as I informed you before, the small screen adaptation of
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| Click on the photo to see the main cast in all their regency finery! |
Jane Austen's last book, and it will also air sometime later this year at
PBS for the American audience. The cast includes
Rose Williams, Theo James, Anne Reid, Kris Marshall, Kate Ashfield,
Jack Fox, Adrian Rawlins, Turlough Convery, Mark Stanley, Matthew Needham, Alexandra Roach,
Leo
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| Theo James and Rose Williams are the love birds of the town! |
Suter, Kevin Eldon and Adrian Scarborough!
Andrew Davies, who brought us
Les Miserables and
War and Peace, is in charge of the adaptation! The series will also feature Austen's only black character (a rich heiress whom all
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| Kris Marshall is the ambitious Tom Parker in the series |
the gents want to seduce in Sanditon) and it will also feature lots of male nudity (and not from the hunks in it, but naked bums from all the unexpected members of the male cast LOL). They are apparently trying to make good old
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| The Denham family rules Sanditon with their wealth! |
boring Austen raunchy out of a sudden. But I'm sure there will be other offensive liberal agenda stuck within a fully nonliberal era just for the sake (or joke) of it. Austen herself has finished only 11 chapters of the novel before she died in 1817.
THE STORY OF SANDITON
follows the impulsive, spirited and
unconventional Charlotte Heywood (
Rose Williams) and her spiky
relationship with the charming Sidney Parker (
Theo James). When a chance
accident transports her from her rural
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| I think this is Theo James' first time to topline a British period set drama |
hometown of Willingden to a
would-be coastal resort, it exposes Charlotte to the intrigues and
dalliances of a seaside town on the make. The drama takes
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| Charlotte will meet the Parker family thanks to a coach accident! |
viewers from
the West Indies to the rotting alleys of London and exposes the hidden
agendas of each character and sees Charlotte discover herself and
ultimately find love.
THE INHABITANTS OF SANDITON!
In the eight part drama,
Anne Reid will play Lady Denham. Two husbands dead and gone, Lady Denham received money from the first and a title from the second and expects to be treated with a great deal of deference.
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| Jack Fox and Charlotte Spencer are Edward and Ester Denham |
Notoriously tight-fisted, she seems to delight in the power that she wields over the town, particularly those waiting to cash in from her death. Playing the head of the Parker family,
Kris Marshall stars in the eight part series as Tom
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| Lady Denham and Tom Parker are Sanditon's business partners |
Parker, an enthusiastic and happily married man with a vision of putting Sanditon on the map.
Jack Fox is Lady Denham's nephew, villainous Sir Edward Denham, while
Charlotte Spencer plays his sister Ester.
An unfinished last novel before death is not promising source material for a mini-series, methinks.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure the writers gave themselves tons of freedom as they always do...
DeleteSuperb photos, each one of them!!
ReplyDeleteIs it free to use them, or do you need permission from the relevant filmography sites where you get the info for your posts?
Sometimes they are not allowed to be posted before certain date, usually a week ahead of the premiere when it comes to ITV. Some networks give us media access to their special media sites, but not many of them, most of them even geoblock their material even their own sites (most of American TV channel websites for example)... I do what I can :) Sometimes I steal, sometimes I don't... sometimes I choose not to post any of their projects if they are nasty to us media... after all we're just poor little bloggers who don't really earn big monies through this.... and we promote them for free....
DeleteITV has a man who's job is to issue photos to media, but he usually does a lousy business LOL and BBC is just pure evil towards media :) Sky is probably the best... American networks are nasty sods, excuse my French :)
DeleteThanks for the detailed reply. Indeed, it seems you're promoting them for free.
DeleteIt is my stress relief daily therapy, Dutie!
DeleteI have agree with Debra. Not that it couldn't be fun, but, just not Jane Austen.
ReplyDeleteIt definitely won't be your typical Austen, she is probably fainting numerous times in her grave without any smelling salts at hand...
DeleteThat is a fancy tophat
ReplyDeleteI'm glad we're not wearing them any more!
DeleteLots of naked bums you say? Might make it worth tuning in for ;)
ReplyDeleteThey say last night's episode was too raunchy for Austen and I also found out that the black missus wasn't really black in Austen's novel, which means it's another liberal agenda, Austen just says she is a rich heiress from West Indies which probably isn't what the writers of this show have in mind.
DeleteSounds like more pc bullshit to appease the masses. I'm so over that, I may not tune in. I done supporting the politically correct crowd!
DeleteI shall check it out tonight probably! Mostly for Leo Suter.
Deleteso it will be like The Full Monty?
ReplyDeleteLots of hot male bums and pelvises too!
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